🚀 go-pugleaf

about
   settling down to the responsibilities of raising a family. (In
   contrast, some modern people indefinitely postpone having children
   because they are too busy seeking some kind of "fulfillment." We
   suggest that the fulfillment they need is adequate experience of the
   power process -- with real goals instead of the artificial goals of
   surrogate activities.) Again, having successfully raised his children,
   going through the power process by providing them with the physical
   necessities, the primitive man feels that his work is done and he is
   prepared to accept old age (if he survives that long) and death. Many
   modern people, on the other hand, are disturbed by the prospect of
   death, as is shown by the amount of effort they expend trying to
   maintain their physical condition, appearance and health. We argue
   that this is due to unfulfillment resulting from the fact that they
   have never put their physical powers to any use, have never gone
   through the power process using their bodies in a serious way. It is
   not the primitive man, who has used his body daily for practical
   purposes, who fears the deterioration of age, but the modern man, who
   has never had a practical use for his body beyond walking from his car
   to his house. It is the man whose need for the power process has been
   satisfied during his life who is best prepared to accept the end of
   that life.
   
   76. In response to the arguments of this section someone will say,
   "Society must find a way to give people the opportunity to go through
   the power process." For such people the value of the opportunity is
   destroyed by the very fact that society gives it to them. What they
   need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as the system
   GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To attain
   autonomy they must get off that leash.
   
  HOW SOME PEOPLE ADJUST
  
   
   
   77. Not everyone in industrial-technological